Hi Prinze, thank you for the feedback. I am happy that our 7 steps to making a wedding budget (from scratch) will help you towards planning for your upcoming December wedding.

Hi Jessica, thank you for that sweet feedback. It always feels good to know that someone appreciates the post here and finds them helpful.

Yes, you can have a N350k trad and white wedding budget wedding, on 2 conditions: that you’ll invite a small number of guests and that you’ll have your white wedding traditional engagement on same day with a joint reception party.

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Another thing, you can have a N350k wedding if you have already taken care of the ‘customary engagement list’ for a traditional wedding.

You’ll need to get realistic on your budget and save money wherever you can. You can find beautiful wedding gowns to rent for cheap. It’s better to restrict your guests to a minimum and have a beautiful small wedding that few guests will enjoy than invite many people and not be able to delight them all with enough or good food and drinks.

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So, yes, you can have a N350k wedding. I wish you all the best. let’s know how it goes.

Hello Deborah, a rough guide is to divide your budget into 2 parts, and keep half for food and drinks. Spread the remaining half over the remaining wedding expenses. With that budget, keep the number of guests small, so that food and drinks will be enough for the guests you have (no one likes to see hungry wedding guests or people scrambling for food at a wedding). Below are more helpful articles to help you:
– Wedding budget breakdown percentages calculation – use the stated percentages with your calculator
– How to know how many guests your (food) budget can cater for, so that you don’t over-invite people.
Hope the above tips help you.

Hi Shine, 200 guests for N300k?
A simple way to know if that amount of money would be enough for your wedding, at the minimum, is to assume a plate of food and a soft drink would cost N1k or N1,500. For your 200 guests, how much would that be, and would the balance be enough for the remaining wedding expenses?

So, you do that math, and decide whether to reduce your guest number to what your budget can afford or whether you should add more money to feed the 200 people.

Hope that tip helps.

Hi Princess, here is the breakdown of steps to plan your Traditional Wedding (click).

Hope that helps.